He said his No. 24 Art & Business squad, which is a mix of experience and talented youth felt, like it just won the city championship after upsetting host and No. 9 Brooklyn Tech 1-0 in the first round of the PSAL Class A girl soccer playoffs Saturday.

“The experience is golden,” Horan said. “They are riding high. … They were just so excited and so happy.”

Flavia Santana scored the only goal the Bulls (8-3-2), who placed third in Queens A-VI, would need. She drilled a pass from Kelly Sanchez just under the cross bar from out the box in the 50th minute. Arts & Business thought it had a second goal 5:00 later when Santana kicked in a rebound off Tech keeper Ryan O’Connell on the opposite side of a Yessenia Moran shot. It was initially called a goal, but was waved off after a discussion by the referees.

Santana was offsides when Moran shot the ball, but was not part of the initial play. Once the ball went the other half of the field, offsides needed to be called. Horan argued that she was not offsides because the ball deflected off the keeper and not passed to her by a teammate.

“I told them I just can’t understand how someone can be offsides when the defender gave her the ball,” he said.

Tech (9-3-1) couldn’t muster much offense with Sara Alonzo shadowing star midfield Niri Halperin the entire game. Art & Business forced her into double and triple teams in their end, kept her from firing shots from outside the box and watched goalie Johana Vargas make seven saves. Horan, who lauded Halperin’s talents, even marked O’Connell with Santana, when she came out of the net in the game’s final minutes.

“If she came out of the game I told Sara to go stand on the sideline and wait for her to come back on,” he said.

The Bulls advance to visit No. 8 Benjamin Cardozo, which beat No. 25 Truman in its first round matchup, 3:30 Tuesday in the second round. It’s just one of the rewards Arts & Business gets for a win.

“I told them, ‘Guess what we get to have?’” Horan said. “We get to have practice on Monday and they are all cheering because they know its win or go home.”